Online date ends with near-fatal stabbing

GREEN BAY — A De Pere woman is accused of stabbing a man after responding to his ad seeking companionship.

Octavia M. Lindsey, 25, is accused in Brown County Circuit Court of attempted first-degree homicide. Her bond was set at $50,000 cash, and she was scheduled for the balance of her initial appearance Aug. 5.

The stabbing happened late Sunday or early Monday in Lindsey’s apartment on North 10th Street in De Pere.

The man, 39, placed an ad on Craigslist, and she answered, directing him to her apartment about midnight, a criminal complaint says.

The man claims they began kissing in her bedroom when she suddenly grabbed something and started stabbing him, the complaint says. She stabbed him in the neck near his throat. He told police he pushed her off, pulled the knife out of his neck and threw it to the ground, but then she hit him in the head with some kind of club.

The man said Lindsey then apologized, got him a towel and helped him apply pressure to his neck.

She offered to drive him in his vehicle to the hospital, but they drove around for close to three hours, the man said. He said he fell in and out of consciousness, and she told him if he told police, she would claim he beat her up.

Lindsey dropped him off at Bellin Hospital, then left in his 2014 Chevrolet Equinox, the complaint says. She had his wallet, with his identification and about $22 when police found her at St. Mary’s Hospital, where she was seeking treatment for cuts on her hands and arms, the complaint says.

She told police she got the injuries after the man had attacked her and she stabbed him in self-defense, but she was vague and uncooperative, the complaint says. She said she drove him around for a long time because she didn’t know where the hospital was.

The a stab wound about eight inches deep that narrowly missed his trachea, the complaint says. The wound went from the front of his neck to almost out the back, the complaint says. A prosecutor said it was “a miracle” that he was still alive.